Quakers and Abolition

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The editors would like to thank Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania for jointly hosting the conference that led to this volume. At the McNeil Center, we would in particular like to thank Dan Richter and Amy Baxter-Bellamy. At Haverford College, we would especially like to thank the staff at the Haverford College Quaker Collection— John Anderies, Diana Franzusoff Peterson, and Ann Upton—as well as Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Bethel Saler, the Office of Quaker Affairs, the Office of the Provost, the Margaret Gest Program, and the John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center’s Leaves of Grass Fund. At Swarthmore, we would like to thank Chris Densmore, Bruce Dorsey, Ellen Ross, and the William J. Cooper Foundation. We also gratefully acknowledge our own institutions—the Department of English and Creative Writing at Kingston University London, the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati, and the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia—whose support has made this international collaboration possible. Finally, we thank Laurie Matheson, Dawn Durante, and Jennifer Clark at the University of Illinois Press for their help and support in seeing this volume into print, and Karen Hallman for her careful editing of the manuscript. Quakers and Abolition ...